In 2002, director/screenwriter Cess Silvera set out to pen SHOTTAS (the Jamaican word for gangster), the story of two young Jamaican teenagers-turned-gangsters. In their quest for a better life in the United States , the two teenagers rob a soda truck to get enough money for Visas. The two soon find themselves intertwined in the seedy world of Miami drug dealers and Jamaican gangsters. According to Silvera, "We've seen the Italian gangsters, the Jewish gangsters, the Cubans, but nobody has ever seen how the Jamaican gangsters do it."
The film, originally produced in 2002, offers a shocking realism that few films can deliver. It is this very realism that proved troublesome to the producers when attempting to find a distributor for the finished film. Not long after, a rough cut of the film found its way onto the internet, and it soon became the most downloaded bootleg film on the internet.
Now, for the first time ever, the final version of this searing drama starring Grammy® Award winning artist Kymani Marley, Jamaican dancehall star Spragga Benz, and world renowned Grammy® Award winning artist Wyclef Jean, is coming to theatres this November.
mi have fi watch it... yuh done know shottas fi life
Posted by: Mahoganyaddict
on October 22, 2006 02:02 PM
There is something very special about that movie shottas. It shows another side of life in Jamaica that I personally know nothing about, I think i will watch it in november when it comes out, even doa a watch it over 9 times already. It cyaaa stale fi me. Mi love the friendship wey the movie portray between Spragga, Marley and the man wey sey walk an live! Everybody want loyal people around dem.
YardFlex Just got da link, Even though I have pre-viewed this movie back in 2k3, I wouldn't mind viewing it on the big screen wid ma girlfriends. So
All ma Shottas and Shottishas who rate de ting from long time, Make sure uno support de Movements. It will definately mean alot for our Reggae/Dancehall culture
As we all know how much fight we get for trying a "Ting" in this region of the world.
Posted by: Ital Ras
on October 22, 2006 02:47 PM
Bout time!
Posted by: nakita
on October 22, 2006 03:20 PM
dis here is big film me haffi c it, jamaica is doin it right nw wid da music n nw doin it in da film big tingz r gwan.
Posted by: P.A.C
on October 22, 2006 08:03 PM
yea the movie is great and very realistic...all the main actors couldn't do it any better, this along with harder they come is the ONLY jamaican movie...spragga mash it up, him show the world how real jamaican badman stay!!~
unnu jus a see shottas?...who nuh see dat movie?..one a di greatest movie of all times..but dem just now a capatalize pon it..lawd di world mess up. yow mi watch shottas bout 100 time already since that touch out pon vhs a few yrs ago
i love shottas i have that show on dvd spragga benz yu dun know kymani marley yu know yu do yu thin. one love yu know that a shottas fi life.
Posted by:SANDY &SPIKES
on October 23, 2006 10:04 AM
the movie is hard we've seen it already people so you're in for a treat.bless from sandy &spikes in the uk
Posted by: GOODAS
on October 23, 2006 10:30 AM
BIG ALL OF DA ACTORS FROM SHOTTAS MY JA SHOTTAS MARLEY/SPRAGGA MY HAITIEN SHOTTAS WYCLEF JEAN STR8888!!!...
Posted by: summadi
on October 23, 2006 10:39 AM
I don't like the lifestyles of the characters but I understand the POV of the movie. I think this was a fabulous movie and the vernacular was authentic. I've been watching this over and over and I use it as an entertainment piece when my guests comes over. I cannot wait to go and watch it in the theaters. PPL, memmba all gangsters die the same way they lived. Shottas is a movie so don't take it literally and most definitely do not practice the behaviors, because those was actors ACTING. oh, Louie Rankin was Phenomenal.
Posted by: sheena
on October 23, 2006 11:04 AM
IT SELL OFF
Posted by: Naptali
on October 23, 2006 11:49 AM
Its a about bloody time, I love this freaking movie, and its about time. I watch my DVD until it was broken.
Posted by: TATLYN
on October 23, 2006 04:51 PM
i love it
Posted by:jahmar rose
on October 23, 2006 07:10 PM
Shottas fi life.
Posted by: Marsha
on October 23, 2006 09:11 PM
Man, i fedup look at shottas on them bootleg dvds... it is about time it reach d bigscreen... it is a must see movie for those who aint see it yet... It real dread... Respect!
Posted by: Lady kaykay
on October 24, 2006 04:42 AM
ITS ABOUT TIME JAMAICA HAVE THEM OWN THING ON BIG SCREEN BIG UP TO EVERYONE FROM SHOTTA AND MY BABY SPRAGGA AND MR MARLEY YOU GUYS COULD'NT HAVE DONE IT BETTER KEEP IT UP
NUFF LOVE COMING
FROM LADY KAY
OUT OFF NYC
I GOT TO SEE IT
Posted by: Dave
on October 24, 2006 01:42 PM
This movie has been all over caribbean , latinamerica , USA and all over the world at least we can see the real colors of it now!oh and for the first person that copied it thank you.
Posted by: tony
on October 25, 2006 11:20 PM
the producers must work pon the long awaiting shottas part 2 best flim ever come outa jamaica
Posted by: brijhani
on November 10, 2006 03:22 PM
when is part 2 of this movie airing?
I loved this movie and I'm a Spragga fan from long time.
